Carrier Aggregation Enhancements for New Radio (nr)

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said first active cell and the second cell are both secondary cells used by the UE device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein using resources granted by the first resource grant to transmit or receive data includes using resources in both the active first BWP of the active first cell and dormant second BWP of the second cell to receive or transmit data is performed without the UE device receiving a separate resource grant on a PDCCH of the second cell authorizing use of downlink or uplink resources granted by the first resource grant.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the active first BWP of the active first cell and dormant second BWP of the second cell are frequency adjacent BWPs.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the first resource grant is a multi-cell grant message which grants resources in both an active cell and a dormant cell for uplink communication, downlink communication, or both uplink and downlink communication in a single message, said first resource grant message a message that was sent without the dormant second cell being switched to an active cell prior to the first resource grant being sent.